Ashes
Prequelle
2018
Duration: 1:21
Track number: 1
Times played live: 168
Writers
Lyrics by: Tobias Forge
Music by: Tobias Forge
Theme
An atmospheric introduction to Prequelle, featuring Tobias's daughter Minou singing 'Ring a Ring o' Roses'—a nursery rhyme believed to originate during the Black Plague. This opener establishes the medieval plague-stricken setting and themes of death and survival that permeate the album, using innocent childhood song to invoke the horrors of mass mortality.
Lyrics
Ring a ring of roses,
a pocket full of posies.
Atishoo, atishoo,
we all fall down.
Ashes on the water,
ashes in the sea,
ashes on the riverside.
One, two, three...
Musicians
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